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7 year Arkane Studios veteran leaves studio to untap his potential
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leaving in troops. Arkane is next after Tango on the cutting line.. hard to see all Arkane studios surviving after Redfall..
Spending 7.5 billion just for one studio after another to seemingly fall apart... what a disaster.
Blizzard is already going to shit.
Apart from enriching a load of institutional investors, what does the ABK deal add to gaming? Nothing. it hurts gaming to enrich some already wealthy people.
Blizzard is already going to shit.
Apart from enriching a load of institutional investors, what does the ABK deal add to gaming? Nothing. it hurts gaming to enrich some already wealthy people.
add to this. whole bethesda/zenimax going to be forgotten. m$ is about to get a new shiny toy.
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Just imagine the exodus from ABK if/when MS acquire them. Blizzard's already turning into a skeleton, can't fathom what'll be the case with the Activision teams. I assume King staff would be more or less stable though, can't picture any notable or large number of departures from that side.
Just imagine the exodus from ABK if/when MS acquire them. Blizzard's already turning into a skeleton, can't fathom what'll be the case with the Activision teams. I assume King staff would be more or less stable though, can't picture any notable or large number of departures from that side.
Which seems to be in sharp contrast to Sony, who are willing to overpay acquisitions just to retain and satisfy the employees, to the point that you have people like the Visual Arts artist Robert Morrison (the cool guy with lots of tattoos) who joined Bend, the Bend game designer Eric Jensen who joined Sucker Punch, recently Firewalk Studios narrative director Emily Zulauf joined Bungie, and from today's news, the development director who joined Firesprite from Media Molecule; even when they leave, SIE/PS Studios employees still seem to enjoy the overall structure enough to remain within the company itself, and I'm sure there are many more examples in recent years.
Microsoft is so obsessed with the big brand energy, IP strength and scope of their latest acquisitions that they sink all their resources and attention for those (and to increasingly mixed results) and seem to be terrified of trying to course correct or at least identify those problems they inherited when acquiring those studios and publishers.
Lol. People leave studios daily. Someone just left bungie the other day. Non story
I wonder how Microsoft will deal with being crushed by a company spending a fraction of what they spent.....
If they will even acknowledge it!
To see talent and creativity beat cash and brute force of corporatism is so poetic to me.
MS is going to enjoy having Sony cut them checks for COD and the like.
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One departure and they fired one writer. No one important. They’re still hiring.
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You're right. And 99% of days it's an MS owned studio people leave.
No pattern or correlation to be seen though, sheer coincidence.
I need one of those current/forthcoming releases picture-graph for XB. What are those 20-odd "pre-bethesda" studios upto, it's years past the times when they were purchased.
